Crime-fighter`s Nephew Charged In Her Killing

March 24, 1987

DETROIT — The nephew of a woman who helped found an anticrime group has been charged in her slaying, police said. Michael Wimbush, 29, is being held without bond in the Wayne County Jail pending a preliminary hearing next week on a first degree-murder charge, police said. His aunt, Lula Mae Wimbush, was stabbed to death March 9. Wimbush was a co-founder of Save Our Sons and Daughters, an anticrime campaign begun after her niece was killed by gunfire at an August slumber party. The girl was one of more than 40 city youths killed by gunfire last year. The arrest shocked a family already grieving, said Inez Wimbush, mother of the slain SOSAD leader and grandmother of the accused. She said she was unaware of any trouble between her daughter and grandson, whom she said was unemployed and trying to find a job.